Microsoft Offers Workaround for Office 2008 Security Flaw

By Jeff Gamet

Jan 27th, 2008 3:00 PM EST

Following the report that Office 2008 for the Mac improperly set permissions during installation, and Microsoftis confirmation of the issue, the company is offering a work around until a permanent fix is available.

Microsoftis Erik Schwiebert stated on the mactopia blog that the "issue is that our installer is incorrectly granting ownership of the files to a particular local user as it installs them, so that if your Mac actually has a second local user and that user is not an administrator on your Mac, they could modify your Office 2008 install."

You may be prompted for your password again. If so, be go ahead and enter it.

Mr. Schwiebert added "The MacBU is working on an update to Office 2008 that will automatically fix the file ownership for you. This update will be made available via Microsoftis AutoUpdate tool and via a web download."